Terri Williams

This topic has nothing to do with this thread, except that I witnessed it. The 911 terrorists were in Canada in 1999. They said they were here to learn to fly crop dusters. There is evidence that this might be true, that they planned to also use crop dusters, but it is not my place to investigate the crime, just to tell what I know to be true, since the truth does matter. The DC Snipers must be true or else why is it still there? The FBI found the surveillance footage. They saw what I described. The VPD officer to whom I spoke, was possibly where I said he was. And it is possible that he blew me off. He is thought of as a bully by those who have had to work with him. My uncle needs to seriously be investigated in the crimes I mention, but I doubt it will ever happen. Until it does, no one will know for sure who the Zodiac Killer was. I'll put my money on it, since I had to live with him in the summer of 1970, in San Bruno, California. No one will ever know the whole truth about the Zodiac Killer, not without knowing the truth about JFK. This thread is about JFK and the KKK, so let's just stick to that here. You can make all the comments you want about my other blogs, on the sites. This is not an appropriate place for them. What about my recollections of what happened in Terry, Mississippi, in 1963, does not fit which facts?

I do, since it happened to me. There are others who were there, who believe it as well. You were not there. But that story has nothing to do with this thread, so I didn't want to confuse the issues. I stand by my claim that the killing of JFK was planned in my hometown and carried out by one of its residents'.....as well as everything else I have blogged about.

I guess that proves that only those who can discern the truth can tell it.

Senator Richard Schweiker, who ran the HSCA along with attorney Richard Sprague before attorney Robert Blakey muscled his way in, would have done a better job with the HSCA investigation, in my opinion. I personally doubt that Blakey was fooled -- I believe he was hired by the CIA to continue to hide the Oswald files at all costs. See -- the obvious reason for hiding the Oswald files has little to do with Oswald -- he's dead and gone and no threat to anybody. This is one of the proofs that Oswald did not act alone -- he was not the lone nut killer -- otherwise why make his CIA and FBI files into a National Security issue? It occurred to me that the continuing threat of the USSR had made the Oswald files into a National Security issue. But since 1990 even the USSR has been dead and gone, and no threat to anybody. So, then, what is the National Security issue? Just like Dallas District Attorney Henry Wade and Chief Curry would pretend to be "fooled" by the Lee Harvey Oswald debacle, I believe Robert Blakey signed this new demand to release Oswald's files to make a pretence of being fooled. On the contrary. He was in on the deception during the HSCA period. Will the JFK records be unsealed this year? I've written to the White House twice about this, asking for a reply. (During the elections last year I always received a reply to my White House queries.) No reply. The only reason I can see for concealing the Lee Harvey Oswald files today, in 2013, must still be National Security. But who or what is being protected after half a century? Surely, given the official USA Government's HSCA conclusion of a conspiracy in the assassination of JFK, we must admit that some people who were in their thirties in 1963 are still alive today. When Chief Justice Earl Warren announced that the Oswald files would be released to the American public in 75 years, he was probably protecting young men and women he knew to be involved. Who were they? We can't be certain until we see the files -- but we can guess about specifics. The US Government did not believe that these people continued to be threats -- otherwise they would have prosecuted them. Instead, they are to be protected. Thus, they're not foreigners -- they're Americans. Best regards, --Paul Trejo Very astute observation Paul. Albert Lee Lewis' son was about 12 or so at the time JFK was killed. 75 years would be enough time for him to pass on first. It would be enough time for me to pass on, you'd figure. I'd have to live to the ripe old age of 86 to see the files unsealed. By then, why would it even matter to the American public anyway? It almost seems like there is a method to the madness. I guess they want to make sure ANY eye witnesses are beyond the grave first, so the lie can become history, once and for all. Maybe 75 years gives me plenty of time to write about it, and then they can come along and open the files and once again, make me out to be a nutcase. What else would be new? There ARE other people, besides me, who KNOW something. We all have to be discredited. 75 years is enough time to build a case against anything we might have said. I figure. Even if the files are opened today, my money says the truth WILL remain hidden, forever. And I will be a nutcase forever. C'est la vie!

Uh Oh, did you read about this? http://whowhatwhy.com/2012/05/30/is-the-government-holding-back-crucial-documents/ "Frustrated by the administration’s foot-dragging on JFK, AARC sent a letter urging the government to get off its duff. One signer was G. Robert Blakey, who served as a Chief Counsel to the House Select Committee on Assassinations (which in its 1978 final report said that, um…it looks like an organized conspiracy was responsible for JFK’s death.)" I hope he is not waiting until I can be droned or something. ii YiPeS !!!

Yes of course Paul. I lived with my great grandparents while my mother was in Whitfield, after her solidarity action with Rosa Parks (sitting in the back of the bus, when she was sent for shock treatment). During that time, a snake was getting into the henhouse and Papa asked Mr Lewis to come shoot the snake. The snake had been found in the outhouse, but had taken off across the field by the time Mr Lewis arrived. He shot the snake in the head, just by watching the grass move. The snake was not visible. Mr Lewis just watched the grass and shot, and the snake was dead with one or two bullets. That was about the only use Papa had for the man. Of course Mr Lewis went and got the snake and was showing it off that he had hit it in the head. That is pretty damn good shooting by anyone's standards.

Paul, I was living in Syracuse, New York at that time. When I returned to Terry in July of 1963, the town was in an uproar over Ole Miss, Meredith and school integration. But the biggest uproar was over the confiscation of guns that the guys had been training with. They were also busting with pride over Banister's visits. That summer talk was of killing Kennedy and it only revved up as the school year progressed. I thoroughly believed they (Klan) meant it, which is why I wrote to JFK to warn him. I knew Albert Lee Lewis was a good shot as I had seen him in action before, so I believed that if JFK went to Dallas, he would be a sitting duck. Also, during the summer of 1963, I did not know about the other shooters. I did not learn about them until the day of at school and again when I was watching the news with my grandmother, who then bragged I should be proud of my uncle, indicating he was involved and one of the shooters. Mrs. Webb, the 8th grade teacher of Albert Lee Lewis' son, was the one who told me it was a 'turkey shoot', right after it happened. The guys had been training in 1962 for an invasion into Cuba, but I was not in the town when they started it up. until March of 1962, I had been living in the Methodist Children's Home in Jackson. In March my two brothers and I went to live with our grandmother, and she soon sent us off to New York with my step father.

I am curious too. Have to get my brother to do that (the photo is his) and that is a TALL order. I will try.

My brother has a photo of our uncle..... along side Castro. Must be around the late 50's early sixties.

Not sure if you can research who was in the National Guard Reserves in 1963, but Albert Lee Lewis was a National Guardsman, as well as a White Knight. My uncle was in the Merchant Marines in the late 50's early 60's, boiler room, and in an old order of the Mason's. He was also the Chief Engineer of the boiler room at San Francisco State University in 1970. My uncle was also a pretty bad shot. I had found documentation a few years back, that Doc was involved in the autopsy of RFK, but now I cannot find it.

Oh I thought I had already given quite a list of names. I don't mind stating again the Albert Lee Lewis of Midway Road in Terry, Mississippi was the man who killed Kennedy, the man on the grassy knoll. He was not a family member; he lived across the road where the Klan rallies with guest speaker Banister, were held in the summer of 1963. There were also Klan rallies in Byram that summer, too. There was a 'turkey shoot' in Dallas on November 22, 1963, three marksmen in a triangle formation. My uncle was on the other side of the limo. Someone else shot from behind Kennedy as well. But Albert Lee Lewis fired the shot that killed Kennedy; he won the 'turkey shoot'. Everyone, RW McDaniel (principal) most of the high school teachers and nearly all students, congratulated his son right afterwards (within 30 mins of the deed). Mrs. Long, the seventh grade (civics) teacher who was also the niece of Huey Long, told me that there was no one to tell about it, since my initial reaction was to tell the law. Mrs Long said that the group of men who had just shot the president, were the same group of men who had killed her uncle, in much the same manner as it turned out. She said that nothing was ever done about those men then and that nothing would be done about them now. She was right. Albert Lee Lewis is dead. He died a few years back, 2007 or so. My cousins (who still live in the house across from the Lewis' old place) know it is true, but they would never say, because they are Klan. One forum member mentioned going down to Terry and into the back woods, to ask the man's family if it was true. That would be more than stupid, they are still Klan. Of concern to me was the man we called Doc. Joel Garrett Brunsen. He was a wealthy, gay pathologist who participated in the autopsy of RFK, maybe even JFK. He supplied much of the means to carry out acts of terror on black people. He was a sly, but dangerous man. I was never a Klansmen and although my grandmother was in the WCC, I was not a member of that either. The were all the same, racists. I abhorred those people, although I HAD to live around them, shop in their stores, befriend their children, pray in their churches and go to their hospitals. The WCC used the Klan to carry out their dirty work, lynchings and whatnot. The WCC didn't make life easy for Black people. They were not 'angels'. It is unfortunate that it has taken so long to get anywhere with the Kennedy assassination alone. My uncle, Al Guy Hollingsworth, (with the help of another cousin and ex New Orleans cop) went on to commit murder like you wouldn't believe. And he never got caught, no surprise there since the FBI could not afford for him to be charged. My uncle died on May 1, 2007 in Idaho, without charge, although there is evidence that he committed murders in British Columbia Canada as well. My cousin, the New Orleans excop, son of a wealthy New Orleans family, still lives in Jackson. He has been a long haul truck driver all these decades since.

Actually I can name him since I know his name and where he lived. I don't really care if I am sued or killed. I would hate to die not ever having said a word. So many people ask who did it and why, that since I actually know his name, where he lived, who his buddies were and other crimes they committed, someone besides me (someone who can discern the truth) ought to be told. And I doubt I can really be sued, since I would demand the records be unsealed and my letter to JFK coughed up, which I would like back anyway, since he didn't listen. The only way out of it is to call me crazy and slander the hell out of ME. Had a good life anyway. I wish I could tell ALL that I know, since there is so much more to tell. Glad I have had the opportunity to tell what little I have told. Not bragging, but if anyone on this site really wanted to know, they are lucky I have spoken out at last. And I believe, Paul Trejo, that you have the capacity to discern the truth. Lucky ME! TY

There are only two other people who were present at Terry Consolidated School on November 22, 1963 who saw exactly what I saw happen that day, and were not happy about it. I kinda doubt they will ever talk, though. I guess I am the only fool from Terry who would. I hope to some day to get in contact with them, but time marches on; they are in their mid to late sixties by now.

A couple of years ago I spoke with Jerry Mitchell, a reporter with the Clarion Ledger/Jackson Daily News. He said he knew of Banister's visits to Byram. He helped in the making of a documentary about the killing of the three civil rights workers. I was hoping to have some justice for Junior Ransom. It actually perplexes me that Sheriff Tyrone Lewis (of today's Hinds County) does not want to seek justice for ANY of the many people who lost their lives to lynchings, even though I know exactly who killed Junior in 1964. Interesting letter from Walker. Thanks for the link. I can hear the thick, pompous, southern accent as I read it. I do remember how the south was up in arms about Cuba, but the thing I remember that caused the most angry reaction was the confiscation of weapons. That's what the Klan called it, confiscation of weapons. They felt that it left them defenceless and it really pissed them off mightily, more than Meredith. It was like throwing fuel on that fire. No Klansmen (and I do mean the WCC, too) was at all comfortable with race mixing. Say what you will about the WCC keeping the Klan out, but I KNOW that was a ruse. They all acted in unison whatever the Klan did. No WCC ever investigated any lynchings, and they knew all about each one, nor would they have ever. The Dixie Mafia was pissed about Castro's nationalizing of their casinos, hotels, prostitution rings and other illicit industries. I think the Klan and the US military were faking it when they claimed there was a danger of invasion, sold it to southerners who ate it up. It was mostly just a revenge they wanted. They wanted their money making illicit businesses back.

Paul, there are people at the Clarion Ledger who know Banister was in Byram (5 miles north of Terry) in the summer of 1963, so there must be some kind of documentation regarding Banister's visits in 1963.Not to mention the green Ford pick-up truck. Wouldn't there have been some documentation about that truck somewhere, something that connects Banister to Terry?

With regards to LBJ and Cuba, if the aim of assassinating JFK was to invade Cuba and Johnson didn't, I can't think of what better evidence that he was somewhere near the top in the plot to kill Kennedy. I mean if he had not been somewhere near the top, and the Klan had just killed one president for not invading Cuba, why would they have not gone after LBJ for not doing what Kennedy did not do? There was more to it than Cuba. Next episode: Vietnam. Who profited from the Vietnam war? Powerful whities? I think someone in the Federal Reserve might have had a hand in matters.

Gosh, great research. Sounds about right to me. Race mixing was grounds for some pretty nasty reactions. My father's mother, a heavy racist, in 1980, took me to Morrison's cafeteria in the Edgewater Mall in Biloxi. Ahead of us in line was a couple. The man was white while the woman was black. I saw them and thought they looked so perfectly in love and sweet. They were both very good looking people. I had forgotten what it was like in the south as I had been living in Canada for the previous ten years. Canada has its racism too, especially in Halifax where, at the time, lived Canada's largest population of black people. But I was living in Ottawa by then and racism was not so evident there, not in my group of friends. However, that said, there were not that many black people in Ottawa then. So back in Mississippi with a grandmother who was a adamant racist, I quickly got a reminder. My grandmother turned to the older white couple behind her and said, loud enough for the mixed couple to hear, "Well isn't that the most disgusting thing you ever saw?" in a very disgusted tone of voice. She and the white couple were going on quite loudly enough, that I was embarrased and ran ahead of them to select a few things. When I got to the cashier, paid for my meal and went to sit down. I sat at the table next to the mixed couple, kinda as a way to say I was sorry. I was about to speak to them when my grandmother came along and said to me, "YOU would sit THERE" and stormed off across the dining room to a white section. I jumped up and followed her, but looked back at the mixed couple as i walked and my face was flush with embarrassment. I had forgotten about all that, but it came back quick. My grandmother also did something nasty to her neighbour while I was there. She had accepted a parcel in a large styrofoam container that had come for her neighbour while she was out of town. The woman came back later that day, but my grandmother did not tell her the parcel was at her house. She did not like that the woman was an older white woman who was apparently a music agents and some of the musicians that came to the woman's house were black. My grandmother was distraught that her neighbour was a "n lover" and refused to tell her the parcel was in her house. My grandmother became angry with me for skipping out the door, going to the woman and telling her the parcel was at my grandmother's house. the woman came and got it later, and of course, my grandmother became totally disgusted with me. That was 1980. the older white folks were not going to easily let go of their ways. Younger white folks were a little less bigoted, but still had to sneak around to have black friends. And it still got people lynched, even then. The Dixie Mafia, which were all Klan, had the "honours" of carrying out lynchings. The dixie Mafia sorta ran the Gulf coast, while the White Knights ran Terry (and beyond I imagine). In the 1980's things had progressed enough in Mississippi that the young mixed couple were able to do what they did. No one did that sort of thing in the 50's & 60's without being taken to the woods immediately. In the 50's and 60's they would have been lynched, Terry-style, even on the coast. I am not sure what ever happened to those people. Lynching in Mississippi back then, were carried out with Middle Ages grotesqueness, disembowelling, and Star Chamber torture. Tire fires were the common 'clean up material' as they get hot enough to burn anything. I am amazed you found this out! Kudos! Does it actually say that "a new populist movement was stirred in Terry, Mississippi in 1963, led by Guy Banister of New Orleans"? He was also in Byram a lot that summer, too. It is true, he was in Terry, a lot in 1963. I remember that we had air raid drills a lot, both in town at home and at school. It was a kinda scary time for many. Talk of an invasion was at every dinner table and at school. It is unfortunate that I was unable to have black friends back then. I would have liked to have known what they were going through and if they were scared of an attack by "Communists". But that was a dinosaur bone of contention. Martha May Ransom, my (mother's mother) grandmother's "maid" never talked about it. If it is written somewhere that Banister was in Terry in 1963, I am totally shocked they would have ever let that cat out of the bag. Kudos again, Paul. You are quite the researcher. :-)

I remember the Sanctified Church Minister, Mr. Williams (no relation) had a bumper sticker that read: "I'd rather be Dead than Red!" And I thought it was funny that the word "Red" was written in red and faded away over time.

Terri, it just occurred to me that you might know about participants in the racial riots of Ole Miss on 30 September 1962. Your home town, Terry Mississippi, is only 15 miles southwest of Jackson, and ex-General Edwin Walker went on the radio and television (I'm told) to call for "ten thousand strong from every State in the Union" to meet him in Jackson, Mississippi on 29 September 1962, to march on Oxford, Mississippi, the site of Ole Miss University, where Black American James Meredith (aided by his NAACP advisor, Medgar Evers) had successfully won acceptance. It seems to me that the KKK in Mississippi would have been the first in line to support "General Walker". You might have some vivid memories of that night, since this was your own home State. What can you remember about that time, Terri? Do you remember interviews or speeches by resigned General Edwin Walker? Did your cousins say anything about "General Walker?" Best regards, --Paul Trejo As I was quite young, I would not have been permitted to be in a riot. But as I stated earlier, I lived in Syracuse New York from June of 1962 - June of 1963, so I was not there, but when we came back in the summer of '63, the whole town was riled like never before. Their big concern was Kennedy, integration and Cubans. We had Air Raid drills at school and in town. The Klan Kidz were nastier than usual. My grandmother went on endlessly about politicians. There was a LOT of talk of every kind, but peace. As I felt they were wrong, and since I was a supporter of Kennedy who felt he would save the south from itself, I tried to just ignore them. I remember my grandmother being frightened that blacks would riot. I was not allowed to go to the park without my brother. I was warned to stay away from "Niggertown", the area of town where black people lived. It irked her that I would follow black girls up the street if they walked passed the house, just so I could hear them speak. I was enchanted by the unique language they spoke. They also got nasty with me, because I guess they thought I was spying, which I guess I was. I would have rather just be able to walk up to them and speak to them instead, even maybe be friends with them. My grandmother tried very hard to protect me from her imaginary fears, so I missed a lot. I remember her going on about Robert McNamara a lot in the sixties, maybe that was later. She did mention Walker, and with pride. Some of the prominent names from back then, she babbled about, off and on. I was at an age where it was important to her to steer me in the 'right direction', so to speak, Klanwise and, in defiance, I got to where I just ignored her, so I guess I missed a lot. She wanted me to be a racist, but it was clear that I was not. It irked her mightily. The Klan Kidz were more obnoxious than usual. I did not let on how I felt on the matter, but it showed on my face when they talked. I remember trying to reason with some of the Klan Kidz, telling them about my experiences with black children in the north. Told them that there were other people whom we did not know, and who were not so bad as we were making out. Of course that kind of talk only got me castigated and ostracized. So after a while I just tuned it out. I was only ten. But the closer it got to November 22, and at that time I did not know the exact date the KKK planned to kill him, just that he would be killed in Dallas. Too bad it happened so soon after he arrived there, with the Eyes of Texas Upon Him. Then on the date, there is no way I could forget what happened, although for decades I tried. I wished it wasn't true then and wish it wasn't true now, but those kidz jumped up and congratulated JFK's killer's son. I wish JFK had taken more caution, maybe given me some credit and heeded my advice. The truth is, that all of 1963, the Klan and its offspring were either training to invade Cuba or practicing for a coup and they were mighty excited about it. As for others who may have been present at the riots, if Mr. RW McDaniel wasn't there, then he had to have been too sick to move. Same with Mr. Patterson and his lot (not the one who started the WCC, but maybe a relative) and the Covingtons would have been there. The Gardners might have been there. My grandmother's family was not going to be there; they were too 'afraid', not of the Klan, but blacks. My cousin, the pilot might have been there, since he was older and from a military family. There were lots of people from my home town who might have been there. I doubt they all went, but they were Klan or Klan supporters. Some branches of my family were heavily ladened with Klan and might have been there. Other branches came from a more liberal side of the family. It was a real affront to most that Kennedy sent troops to Oxford. My grandmother had graduated from there in the twenties. Mississippians were proud of Ole Miss and Oxford was a place of prominence in esteem to the state, so integrating THAT school was a particular affront to Mississippians. I mean people would have gotten riled over any school being integrated, but THAT PARTICULAR SCHOOL? That meant war. Take away a few weapons, leaving southerners in a state of what they would call "defenceless" and presto, a coup d'etat. Played like a chess game, eh?

What you were saying about Bannister spying on people, I wonder if he spied on my grandfather. My grandfather supposedly killed himself in 1959. He had played in New Orleans, and then jammed with the other musicians in their hotel. Klan made sure he was going to go back to Whitfield and he just didn't want to go again.... supposedly. My cousin (not the pilot) who was a police officer there, his father owned Underwood Glass. My cousin's mother was my grandfather's sister. The Klan usually pressured the family to commit the renegade, if the family had money, which mine did, otherwise it would have been straight to the woods. My cousin came to live with my mom and us kids in 1967, in Terry. He had quit the New Orleans police, because he said they had become too corrupt, however that was nothing new. So I wonder why Eddy really did quit. My uncle had come to visit that summer. He came to my mom's house to visit with Eddy. Mom was at work, the others were at their friends' houses, I was the only one home with Eddy when UncleBubba showed up. We all sat around the kitchen table and Eddy and Uncle Bubba discussed how to get away with murder, etc. Eddy told Uncle Bubba about all the women who had gone missing in New Orleans and how police 'did not have the evidence' to arrest anyone. They talked for hours about the crimes, what police looked for, how the murders were be interpreted, etc., before my Mom came home and the talk changed. It was the kinds of questions my uncle asked that made me wonder about him. Actually, I wondered about them both. Eddy had gotten the job of 'Night Marshal' in Terry, a post traditionally held by someone either in the Klan or sympathetic. Reece (or Reese) Lewis is the only Night Marshal whose name I remember, before Eddy got the job. I had tried, foolishly, to tell Reece Lewis about Albert Lee Lewis in 1965, before I left to live in Syracuse. He laughed at me and said, "Aw, you just a crazy little girl" then laughed some more. I remembered what Mrs. Long had said regarding the assassination, that 'There is no one you can tell. The men who just shot the president will never be caught and nothing will ever be done about them'.

Terri, the work of Jim Garrison (as dramatized in Oliver Stone's 1991 movie, JFK) is the only major work that I know about which clarified the role of Guy Banister. Guy Banister was born in Louisiana in 1901, and after he got out of college he joined the Lousiana Police Department. When he was 32 years old he was accepted into the FBI. He was present when John Dillinger was killed. Banister helped J. Edgar Hoover investigate the Communist Party USA, and Hoover promoted him to Special Agent in Charge. After he retired from the FBI in 1954, Guy Banister returned to Louisiana to become Assistant Superintendent of the NOPD. In this office he became obsessed by the McCarthyist idea that the Civil Rights movement was Communist. He quit the NOPD in 1957 and started his own Private Eye firm to spy on students in college. Guy Banister went mostly underground at this point. He began to investigate the FPCC (Fair Play for Cuba Committee) in 1960, and spied on college students that he believed were friendly to the FPCC. Rumors abound that he himself became corrupt during the early 1960's period, and he joined David Ferrie to work for the famous Lousiana mobster, Carlos Marcello. (Marcello, also a rabid racist, was friendly to the KKK, and evidently Banister was also a member of the KKK and any other white-supremacist organization that sprang up in his neighborhood.) In the summer of 1963, Guy Banister (allegedly) hired Lee Harvey Oswald to infiltrate the FPCC, and pretend to be a leader of the FPCC in New Orleans, in order to entrap college students who were friendly to the FPCC. On some of the FPCC fliers that Lee Harvey Oswald handed out in New Orleans, Oswald had stamped the address of 544 Camp Street, which turns out to be the office above Guy Banister's office, and next to the offices of Cuban Exile radicals in the DRE, INCA and the CRC. Oswald spent his time with Cuban Exiles during this period, and we have plenty of film, radio and newspaper clips to prove that obvious fact. Jim Garrison was the guy who first pointed all this out in his publications to the world. Unknown to Oswald, Lee Harvey Oswald was also being betrayed by these same operators -- they were going to use Oswald's FPCC disguise as "proof" that Oswald was really a Communist, in order to blame Oswald for the JFK assassination -- Oswald was going to be the patsy. That is, Banister was aware of, and directly involved in, the JFK assassination, and deliberately set-up Oswald as a "Communist" in the newspapers, radio and television, "proving" that Oswald was a Communist, while at the same time Banister coordinated the actual shooters to appear in Dallas (or some other city, as needed). Banister's goal, according to Jim Garrison, like the goal of all others involved in the JFK assassination, was to convince the USA to invade Cuba right away. Best regards, --Paul Trejo <edit typos> Thank you for all that info about Bannister. It makes me wonder if he ratted my grandfather out when he played in New Orleans and if he was friendly with anyone in my family (mother's father's sister), the Underwoods, there. My cousin was a New Orleans police officer in the early sixties. My uncle (mother's brother) had been in the Merchant Marines during that time and had moved to Houston or somewhere in Texas, got married, had a son, abused his wife and got divorced, then went off to a mental facility somewhere in California I think, in '59, the year my grandfather "killed himself" and my mother was committed to Whitfield. Are there any records connecting Bannister to Albert Guy Hollingsworth, I wonder?

That is exactly what it was like in my hometown during that time. I remember the school and town having 'air raid drills'. It was scary for me, since I was only in elementary school still. It all reached a peak in the summer of 1963 when it turned to anger at Kennedy for having left the south defenceless, or so Klan people said. Bannister came to town on more than one occasion that summer. When DePugh says, "Yankee tricks", he is referring to strategies learn from Yankees, by Rebels, during the Civil War, or at anytime from a Northerner. He means 'Northern Tricks', not necessarily 'American' ones. Kids in my hometown, when I came back from NY a second time, called me a Yankee. That was meant as an insult, to show me that I was an outsider. Eventually I was also called a carpetbagger. Most Southerners passionately thought of themselves as Rebels. Yankees were the enemy.

What was Bannister's role? Why did he come to my home town and Byram in the summer of 1963? What was his part in all this? Why did he say Mr. Lewis was a Champion of Freedom? Did he find bed and breakfast with Doc when in town? If Bannister was part of black ops, then the CIA didn't just step aside and watch, they directed, orchestrated, most eloquently. Did I mention that I also had an uncle who worked in Bethesda? My father's oldest brother, MJ. I liked my uncle. He was a kinder man than most others in the family and I liked his children. Many southerners had relatives who worked in Bethesda, and beyond.

Thanks, interesting read about him. I had family in New Orleans, whom I visited quite often when growing up. It has always been one of my favourite American cities. Doc wrote this textbook, Concepts of Disease: Textbook of Human Pathology. I believe he was head of Pathology at the University Hospital in Jackson. He was definitely connected to Bannister and possibly more higher up. He did attend at RFK's autopsy, maybe even JFK's & MLK's as well. From what I heard while growing up, he had a hand in much violence, probably explicitly through funding, as well as offering space for Klan activities. If he was a Klansmen, he probably kept it hidden. I wouldn't be surprised if he funded some of the White Citizens' Councils activities in Terry. He was a very intelligent, high society kind of man of the gay, yet "cold-hearted" variety. Doc was in his forties when I was a teenager, so he would have been in the same age group as Clay Shaw. It would not have been that unusual for the two of them to have known each other. Wealthier people would have paid a crop duster to fly them down to New Orleans for the weekend, air taxi style. My cousin who crop dusted, flew in Vietnam, three tours of duty, living north nowadays. His brother worked for Houston Central. Their sister lived and worked in DC for a decade back then. On both sides of my family are military. They were most interested in fighting against Cuba and felt it the duty of every able bodied man to participate. Those who did not were castigated. Patriotism! The Klan felt they were the only true Americans and they were not beyond fighting "for 'their' country" and those who did not or who got in their way, were shoved aside or killed. That was just on a local level. Nationally the sentiment was magnified. They felt they were saving the USA by killing Kennedy and preventing him and his brother from going ahead with their plans, stopping them dead in their tracks. Those who were most harmed by Kennedy, such as the FBI, CIA and Mafia MUST have helped out. The Mafia had/has a stronghold in the South, the Dixie Mafia as it is called. Some of them would have been Klan as well. There has been no evidence presented to me that proves the FBI are a reputable organization, so I can believe, especially in light of Hoover's relationship with the Kennedy brothers, that FBI had a covert hand in carrying out and covering up. The CIA must have gone south and riled the Klan into action, you might figure. The whole coup d'etat was pulled off much like any other CIA operation anywhere else, so why is it not conceivable that they also had a covert hand. Covert IS their middle name. They certainly had cause enough to be angry at the brothers in power. Heck, I even had relatives who worked in Bethesda, for Pete's sake. Somehow, Doc knew someone in power. He aided and abetted in something he strongly believed in. If there was a connection between Bannister and Terry, his is one of the many names I would suggest as fitting the bill.

The men I claim are the ones who carried out this plot, are not what normal society is, I hope. Although the way times have progressed, and given all the gun toting Americans who shoot people, maybe they are. Many Americans believe that 911 was a terrorist attack. What I witnessed the Klan do was terrorism, so it is not something that is new to the USA. Personally I find it hard to believe the FBI were not involved in 911 because of the way they ignored so many good leads and tips. I also feel the FBI know a lot more about JFK's assassination than they have told. AND I feel that Hoover knew Doc, although I have no proof. Truly I have not investigated this topic very much. I did see the movie JFK. I was struck by the info that Bannister traveled in a Sesna (like the one my pilot cousin flew while doing crop dusting), toward a point due north of New Orleans. Terry/Byram is nearly due north of New Orleans. I have always found it curious that people rarely connect Kennedy King Kennedy to the KKK, just like that Klan kid said, just before she congratulated the killer's son. Also in that film, there was a character named 'Clay Shaw' or 'Bernard Shaw'. Does anyone on this forum, know if 'Clay/Bernard Shaw' was a fictional name? I have often wondered if 'Clay Shaw' is the name created for Doc. The South I grew up in was full of fear. Fear of what the Cubans might do, fear of what would happen if schools and public places were integrated, fear of what would happen if blacks finally voted, not to mention the organic fear blacks had of the KKK. Black people were driven by hope, in the midst of fear, while white people were driven by the anger their fears provoked. When a country lives so much in fear, it is difficult for peace to get a foot hold.